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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
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How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?
Thomas Carlyle -
The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
Thomas Carlyle -
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
Thomas Carlyle -
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle -
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
Thomas Carlyle -
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.
Thomas Carlyle -
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
Thomas Carlyle -
The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
Thomas Carlyle -
Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
Thomas Carlyle -
Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
Thomas Carlyle -
Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.
Thomas Carlyle
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
Thomas Carlyle -
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle -
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
Thomas Carlyle -
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle -
Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
Thomas Carlyle -
Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
Thomas Carlyle
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All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle -
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
Thomas Carlyle -
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Thomas Carlyle -
History is the new poetry.
Thomas Carlyle